Codezwiz >> Forums >> General PHP Nuke Help >> smtp authentication for new users & newsletter publicati

I've been searching for 2 days and haven't found a solid answer to what appears to be a very common problem.

Many servers, for whatever reason, has disabled the php mail funtion. phpnuke uses this funtion to authenticate new users, and so far as I can tell, to send the newsletter.

I cannot access php.ini and replacing the Your_Account module will not fix the newsletter.

Does anybody know a way to make phpnuke use authenticated smtp instead of phpmail?

extra info:
phpnuke 7.4
linux server
phpbb sends mail just fine
phpnuke only sends mail to addresses within same server

This is the reply I got from the server when asking about this issue.

To be able to send a script generated mail through the server you have to set either the recipient's e-mail address (the "To:" header) or the sender's e-mail address (the "From:" header) to be an e-mail address from your hosted domain on the server.

The "From:" header is required to be present and to be preceding the "To:" header.

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Here are examples of well working formmail scripts:

First Example:

<?
$from = "From: yourname <youremail@yourdomain.com>";
$to = "receiver";
$subject = "Hi! ";
$body = "TEST";

if(mail($to,$subject,$body,$from)) echo "MAIL - OK";
else echo "MAIL FAILED";
?>
Second Example:
<?
$from = "From: sender";
$to = "yourname <youremail@yourdomain.com>";
$subject = "Hi! ";
$body = "TEST";

if(mail($to,$subject,$body,$from)) echo "MAIL - OK";
else echo "MAIL FAILED";
?>

Attach your Your_Account index.php I will see if I can help.